THE MUSIC BLOGGING HIVE MIND

Vital Signs

  • Mogger Since

    August 13, 2006

  • Age

    55

  • Location

    Bucks County, Pennsylvania

  • Non-musical good things

    Rio de Janeiro, Jeffrey Bernard, Spanish reds, Jacques Tati, a cool family

  • Last Good Music Book Read

    "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me," Simon Napier-Bell

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I'm with the band....
4 months ago

As faithful readers of the MOG Gazette (hey, guys!) recently learned, I am once again brandishing a bass guitar and leaving a thin spray of spittle on defenseless microphones, in company with a similarly unpromising phalanx of past-their-prime would-be rockers. We don't have a name yet. I proposed The Locals, but that suggestion has been met so far with a very meaningful silence. I may have to...

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Some Haitian compas for Spike
5 months ago

I reckon this is funky enough for Friday in its idisyncratically syncopated way. Don't really have an accompanying story or a deep philosophical musing to match with this. The rationale for the post is fairly simple - Spike wanted to hear how Haitian compas resembled the music of Cape Verde, I love both (at least what he presented), and jumped at the chance to fling something this cool into the...

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Toxic Tuesday: More Appalling Eurovision Fun
5 months ago
  • Artist:
    Sandie Shaw
  • Album:
    The Collection
  • Track:
    Puppet On a String

I have not been able to participate much in Toxic Tuesday - not because there is no dreadful music in my vaults (quite the contrary), but because none of it can match the Valhalla of dreck that Mike the Knife has assembled over these past weeks. Until now. Earlier today, after having crawled out from under my desk after having inadvertently hit the play button on Clodagh Rogers's ghastly sprig...

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